Title

Fuegians going to trade with the Patagonians, 1839. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Fuegians going to trade with the Patagonians, 1839. The Fuegians would trade their captives and their own children with the Patagonians for dogs, horses, guanoco meat, and various other commodities. From Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle (Vol II) by Robert Fitzroy. (London, 1839). Fitzroy was captain of the 'Beagle' on the circumnavigation on which Charles Darwin was the naturalist.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1839

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B66_201

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (1,9Mb) / 17,8in x 10,9in / 5350 x 3264 (300dpi)

Keywords

weather travel transport transportation South America animal people Argentina cold country snow dog trade ship ships continent voyage bleak dress native Native American South American location century expedition concept beagle B&W American Indian Tierra del Fuego MONOCHROME 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W nineteenth century Oxford Science Archive Fuegian TGN etching Unknown Robert Charles Darwin Darwin Charles Robert Fitzroy Robert Fitzroy Robert Fitzroy Charles Darwin etching